A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order barring federal agents in Portland from arresting or using force against journalists and observers. The order details several examples of journalists being fired upon, pepper sprayed and hit with batons.
Thursday preventing federal agents from"arresting, threatening to arrest, or using physical force" directed at anyone they know to be a journalist or legal observer, unless they have probable cause to believe they have committed a crime.
They wrote that they were seeking to stop local and federal defendants from attempting to intimidate the press and"assaulting news reporters, photographers, legal observers, and other neutrals who are documenting the police's violent response to protests over the murder of George Floyd."The order details several examples of journalists, identifiable by press passes, clothing and gear, being fired upon, pepper sprayed and hit with batons by federal agents.
The order also detailed the story of photojournalist Jungho Kim, who has covered protests in California and Hong Kong and has experience"distinguishing himself from a protester." Kim was recording protesters on the scene when federal agents pushed them away from the area. Thursday's order adds the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Marshals Service, the federal defendants, to an"This order is a victory for the rule of law,", interim executive director of the ACLU of Oregon."Federal agents from Trump's Departments of Homeland Security and Justice are terrorizing the community, threatening lives, and relentlessly attacking journalists and legal observers documenting protests.
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